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Guilty verdicts & 31-month suspended sentences announced in Greek sprinter case <0>
Agencies/Webmaster
Tuesday, May 10 2011 7:20:52 AM
A Greek court has found sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou guilty of making false statements to authorities over an alleged motorcycle accident just before the 2004 Athens Olympics.
"The court finds that this accident never occurred," judge Dimitris Lefkos said today in Athens prior to adjourning the case to deliberate with his fellow judges on the question of jail time, which was proposed by the public prosecutor.
There will be no jail time, as the judges returned to announce a 31-month suspended sentence for Kenteris and Thanou, and a 33-month suspended sentence and 5,000 Euro fine to coach Christos Tzekos.
Also found guilty were six KAT hosp...
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Closing argument made by Tzekos/Thanou attorney in Greek sprinter case <0>
By Christopher Galakoutis
Friday, May 6 2011 5:56:44 AM
The lawyer for Christos Tzekos and Katerina Thanou provided his closing argument this past Tuesday in Athens, at the trial in connection with an alleged motorcycle accident on the eve of the Athens Olympic Games involving Ms. Thanou as well as her then training partner Kostas Kenteris.
Nikos Kollias, speaking before a Three Member Criminal Court, stated that not only was there no proof a motorcycle accident had been staged, but in order to believe it had been would necessarily mean that every witness called in the case had provided false testimony.
“In order to show that a traffic accident never happened you would have to conclude that every witness...
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Halkia may benefit from pending CAS ruling <1>
Agencies/Webmaster
Tuesday, May 3 2011 11:48:01 PM
Greece’s Fani Halkia may get to compete at London 2012 if the sporting world’s highest court scraps a relatively new International Olympic Committee (IOC) rule barring from the next Olympics any athlete who serves a doping ban of six months or more.
Halkia, the 400m hurdles go...
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Exclusive: Tzekos says Greek sprinters were IOC targets in advance of Games <3>
By Christopher Galakoutis
Tuesday, April 19 2011 10:58:25 PM
Christos Tzekos, the much maligned former coach of the Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, has claimed in an exclusive interview with HellenicAthletes.com that the International Olympic Committee attempted to create a whereabouts problem for his at...
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Greek track coach makes all the right moves <2>
By Christopher Galakoutis
Saturday, April 2 2011 11:54:42 PM
You might not guess it at first glance with the heat and humidity or the city named Athens that he finds himself in, but a Greek coach is making a positive impact on the track thousands of miles from the epicenter of one of the worst periods ever for Greek athletics.
Now in his 3rd full s...
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IAAF says 'No' to Greek Minister <2>
By Christopher Galakoutis
Tuesday, March 29 2011 1:33:48 PM
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will not hand over the file of Piyi Devetzi to the Greek General Secretary for Sports, Panos Bitsaxis, HellenicAthletes.com has learned.
The IAAF position is that the matter is confidential and will not be released to any party...
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